Towards Intergenerational Equity: Analysis of Youth Engagement Strategies in Climate Action Planning in Mzuzu, Malawi

Josephine Marion Zimba, Brian Simbeye and Stanley Chilunga Chirwa
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Josephine Marion Zimba: Environmental Science and Management Department, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Malawi
Brian Simbeye: Independent Researchers, Malawi
Stanley Chilunga Chirwa: Independent Researchers, Malawi

Urban Planning, 2021, vol. 6, issue 4, 309-320

Abstract: Globally, meaningful youth participation in planning processes aimed at dealing with climate change impacts has been advocated for sustainability purposes. Article 6 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change requires parties to ensure there is public participation in addressing climate change, its effects, and the development of responses. In the city of Mzuzu, Malawi, local community members have been involved in planning processes at different planning levels but more intensively at the community level. Despite this approach receiving much attention, minimal consideration has been put on which societal groups are to be engaged directly, with youths being excluded to a large extent, even though about 49% of the population in Malawi is aged between 10 and 34 years. This article, therefore, seeks to foreground how current stakeholder engagement strategies in climate change planning marginalise the youth. To do this, this article critically reviews current stakeholder engagement strategies and assesses the extent to which youth are involved in the planning processes in Mzuzu City. It further assesses the factors affecting youth involvement in the planning process and subsequently recommends how stakeholder engagement strategies can be designed and implemented to ensure effective youth engagement in climate change planning processes in the city.

Keywords: climate change; Malawi; planning; stakeholder engagement; youth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.17645/up.v6i4.4383

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